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Gonorrhea infections start from exposure to seminal fluidResearchers have come a step closer to understanding how gonorrhea infections are transmitted. When Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea, are exposed to seminal plasma, the liquid part of semen containing secretions from the male genital tract, they can more easily move and start to colonize. The research, led by investigators at Northwestern University in Chicago, appears in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-gonorrhea-infections-exposure-seminal-fluid.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:01 EDTnews313071227HIV exploits a human cytokine in semen to promote its own transmissionA new report suggests that the concentration of one human cytokine, interleukin 7 (IL-7), in the semen of HIV-1-infected men may be a key determinant of the efficiency of HIV-1 transmission to an uninfected female partner. In their study published February 7 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, a research group from the Eunice Kennedy-Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) led by Leonid Margolis report that the increased IL-7 concentration in semen facilitates HIV transmission to cervical tissue ex vivo.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-hiv-exploits-human-cytokine-semen.html
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